ess

See also: Ess, Ess., ESS, -ess, ess-, and ëss

ess - English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ĕs, IPA: /ˈɛs/

Noun

ess (plural esses)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.
  2. Something shaped like the letter S. (See esses)

Usage notes

  • Compounds are normally spelled es: es-hook, es-link, etc.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Arabic: إِس m (ʔis)
  • Catalan: essa (ca) f
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)
  • Danish: es (da) n
  • Esperanto: so (eo)
  • Faroese: ess n
  • Finnish: äs (fi), ässä (fi)
  • French: esse (fr) m
  • Galician: ese (gl) m
  • Greek: ες (el) n (es)
  • Hawaiian:
  • Hindi: एस (es)
  • Ido: se (io)
  • Irish: eas (ga), sail (ga) f
  • Japanese: エス (esu)
  • Korean: 에스 (eseu)
  • Latin: es (la)
  • Malay: es (ms)
  • Marathi: एस (es)
  • Norwegian:
    • Bokmål: ess (no) m
    • Nynorsk: ess m
  • Occitan: èssa f
  • Portuguese: esse (pt) m
  • Russian: эс (ru) n (es)
  • Spanish: ese (es) f
  • Thai: เอส (th) (ées)
  • Turkish: se (tr)
  • Vietnamese: ét (vi), sờ (vi), xờ mạnh, xờ nặng
  • Welsh: ès f

Verb

ess (third-person singular simple present esses, present participle essing, simple past and past participle essed)

  1. To move in a changing direction, forming the shape of a letter S.

Hypernyms

Translations

Anagrams

ess - Cimbrian

Noun

ess m (plural ésse)

  1. (Sette Comuni) ash (tree)
    • Memme ésse manzich machan biil èrbot.
      • Many things can be done with ash wood.

Declension

singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative an dar ess de ésse
accusative an in ess de ésse
dative aname me ésse in éssen

ess - Estonian

Noun

ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

ess - Faroese

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

Declension

n11 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ess essið ess essini
Accusative ess essið ess essini
Dative essi essinum essum essunum
Genitive ess essins essa essanna

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

  1. (card games) ace

Declension

n11 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ess essið ess essini
Accusative ess essið ess essini
Dative essi essinum essum essunum
Genitive ess essins essa essanna

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, plural ess)

  1. (music) E-flat

Declension

n11 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ess essið ess essini
Accusative ess essið ess essini
Dative essi essinum essum essunum
Genitive ess essins essa essanna

ess - German

Verb

ess

  1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of essen
    • Synonym: (standard) esse
  2. (colloquial) singular imperative of essen
    • Synonym: (standard) iss

ess - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈɛʃː]
  • Hyphenation: ess

Alternative forms

  • essél

Verb

ess

  1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik

Noun

ess

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of ess

ess - Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɛsː/

Noun

ess n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural ess)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.
  2. (music) bocal (on a bassoon)
  3. (poetic) horse

Declension

n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ess essið ess essin
accusative ess essið ess essin
dative essi essinu essum essunum
genitive ess essins essa essanna

ess - Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa or essene)

  1. an ace (playing card; or someone very proficient)

ess - Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ess n (definite singular esset, indefinite plural ess, definite plural essa)

  1. (card games) an ace
  2. (idiomatic) a high-performing] athlete

Usage notes

  • Prior to a revision in 2019, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine. The forms essen, essar, and essane were then made obsolete.

Alternative forms

  • Ess (alternative capitalization)

Noun

ess m (definite singular essen, indefinite plural essar, definite plural essane)

  1. (music) E-flat

Anagrams

ess - Old Irish

Noun

ess

  1. Alternative form of es (cataract, rapid) m
  2. Alternative form of es (vessel) n
  3. Alternative form of es (death)
  4. Alternative form of es (ox)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
ess unchanged n-ess
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ess - Penobscot

Noun

ess anim (plural èssak, possessed wətéssomal)

  1. clam, bivalve, mussel, bivalve shell

ess - Swedish

Alternative forms

  • äss (meanings 1 and 2 below)

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: S

Noun

ess n

  1. ace; a card with one mark
  2. ace; someone very proficient
  3. (music) E-flat

Declension

Declension of ess 

Anagrams

ess - Võro

Noun

ess (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

ess - Yola

Noun

ess

  1. ass (donkey)
Meaning and Definition of ess
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